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What better way to beat those winter blues than by joining your fellow AAA-CPA members for a weekend getaway at the AAA-Four Diamond Grande Colonial Hotel in La Jolla, California! The Southwest Regional Education Conference will be taking place Jan. 20-22, 2017, and will feature up to eight hours of CPE and CLE/MCLE on a 50-minute hour track six hours of CLE/MCLE on a 60-minute hour track. Make your room reservations today by calling the Grande Colonial at 888-855-5653. The AAA-CPA has secured a discounted room rate of $200 single/double. Resort fees during your stay are included in the room rate. Reservations must be made by Friday, Dec. 30, in order to receive the group rate. When making reservations, please mention that you are with the AAA-CPA attending the Southwest Regional Education Conference.

AAA-CPAThe Northern New Jersey Working Together Conference continues to promote the positive ongoing relationship between the tax practitioner community and the IRS. The annual meeting, open to both IRS employees and the practitioner community, has become a "mark your calendar" event for many New Jersey tax professionals. The intent is to engage in ongoing, meaningful dialogue aimed at improving our dealings with one another, thereby improving service to our common customer — the taxpayer public. Click here for more information, and click here to register for this event. For any additional information on the Northern New Jersey Working Together Conference, please contact Glenn Gizzi, IRS senior stakeholder liaison, at Glenn.J.Gizzi@irs.gov.

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Many people believe that their employer provides the necessary insurance coverage while they are on the job. Unfortunately, that is not always the case. Join Ryan Anderson and Sam McFee on Tuesday, Nov. 29, as they help uncover any potential gaps in existing coverage and provide a deeper understanding of their own liability during this study group webinar. Also, learn best practices for avoiding professional liability-related claim pitfalls and what you can do to achieve a more competent personal risk management analysis. Click here to register for this informative webinar program!

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The age of social media is upon us. For small law or accounting firms, creating and growing your online presence can play an extremely important role in your firm's future success.
Fortunately, it is not difficult to improve your social marketing, even if you are starting from scratch. It simply requires a little time and effort to create a basic social media strategy that will help elevate your practice as an authority in your industry while simultaneously increasing brand exposure to potential clients. By simply creating accounts across multiple networks, posting on a regular basis and sharing unique content, you are well on your way to becoming a social media professional. However, there are certain things you should keep in mind as you delve into the world of social media marketing that will help you succeed.

AccountingWEBManagement accountants in hospitals, tax return preparers, tax attorneys, CPAs and public accountants all have a stake in what happens to the Affordable Care Act under the Trump administration. Despite President-elect Donald Trump's vow to repeal President Barack Obama's signature health care law, it's not likely, according to four experts who spoke during a recent webinar hosted by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.READ MORE

CPA Practice Advisor American sales tax professionals identified interstate tax liabilities (71 percent) and inaccurate data (57 percent) as the biggest risks facing their businesses, according to a new Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting survey on sales and use tax compliance. Their responses highlight the complexities born out of varying sales and use tax regulations for organizations that operate in multiple states and/or sell products online.
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Forbes With Republican control of the House and Senate, President-elect Trump and Congress might tell the tax code, "you're fired!" And as big as the coming tax changes might be, it's worth noting what is highly unlikely to change.
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Accounting TodayPublic companies in the U.S. recorded $57 billion in goodwill impairment last year, more than double the amount of impairment they recorded the previous year, according to a new study. The study, by the valuation and corporate finance adviser Duff & Phelps, found this to be a record degree of goodwill impairment since the height of the financial crisis happened.
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ReutersA co-author of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's tax plan called on Congress to pursue corporate tax reform as a bipartisan "jobs" bill that could finance a massive new infrastructure program while slashing business tax rates. Stephen Moore, a Heritage Foundation fellow who advised the Trump campaign, said he would recommend that Trump pursue tax reform along two tracks, by focusing on business taxes in his first 150 days and leaving the politically more challenging task of reforming individual taxes for later.
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Journal of Accountancy The IRS will likely begin accepting income tax returns in the upcoming filing season with "no significant delays," IRS Commissioner John Koskinen told the AICPA National Tax Conference in Washington, D.C.
Return filing can begin "certainly before the end of January," Koskinen said, although he did not announce an exact date.READ MORE